Simon Winkler

I just started the ELMBA in September with a concentration in Management. I am founder and president of the Bentley European Club and enjoy visiting events and gatherings of the GSA and sister organizations. I live close to the campus in an international house with Chinese, Taiwanese, American and German students. I am also from Germany and it is my first experience in this country. Before joining Bentley, I had received a Bachelor's degree in Information Management and worked in Asia in marketing communications.

This past weekend was the legendary ski trip held each year by the Graduate Student Association(GSA), a group I actively help to support. Any student enrolled in at least one graduate class at Bentley is automatically considered a general member of the GSA. Whether purely social, purely professional, or a mix of both, there are […]

During the last two weeks, the world’s best winter athletes met in Sochi, located right at the coastline of the Russian Black Sea, to compete in various disciplines for an Olympic gold medal. What the Olympic Games are to athletes, case competitions are to MBA students. As in sports, case competitions are games against the […]

I started my MBA in September six months ago. When I recently sat in the library I looked out of the window and I realized how fast the seasons changed. Sometimes time flies and the poem below remembers me to consciously live each and every moment. Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round, or […]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a South African social-rights activist, once said: “We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.” Cultures, religions, political systems, businesses, landscapes, climate or seasons — we can find diversity in all of them and the list could go on and on. Diversity creates contrasts and contrasts make life exciting; some people […]

Dear Reader, When I first thought about the blog’s name, “Master Mind,” I asked myself what that expression means to me. How has the Bentley MBA program, the lectures, the student community, and this journey I’m on change the way I think and behave? Bentley certainly has equipped me with great skills and knowledge for […]